European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes monday March 4, 1991overseas zip code changes on hold by Jan 1st ii Owells Tierney v Washington bureaus Washington a plans to change overseas zip codes and to standardize addresses this month have been put on hold officials say. A we had to open up so Many new Apo numbers in saudi Arabia that we have had to delay the planned worldwide military realignment of Apo Fpo numbers a said Navy postal clerk 1st class Timothy Larson of the military postal service Agency. The postal system has introduced about 215 new numbers in the Middle East since the Start of the Gulf War in january he said. Fewer than a dozen zip codes were used in the Region before Larson said. The change was supposed to take effect Friday and the new military Post office zip code numbers were listed in the 1991 National zip code directory Larson said. A a. A a a. A those new numbers should be disregarded temporarily a he isaid a customers should use the 1990 directory  / the new system is expected to be in place by Ocus Ber Larson said. The move will allow the military postal system to catch up with the More automated system in use stateside. Optical scanners used in Post offices need addresses to  . A. A the scanners focus on the last two lines of the mail ing address which for Ordinary civilian mail includes the Street address City and state. When the new system begins overseas military mail will continue to use unit designations including any Box numbers but the last line of the address will be . / a a a a a a All mail destined for Europe the Middle East Africa and Canada will use a a aet in place of the state name. A a apr will be used for mail to the Pacific and a a aah for mail to the americas other than Canada. For example a letter to a Soldier in Frankfurt Germany would be addressed sgt.  . Box 123 Apo a 09039 a a. Listings of the new overseas military zip codes arc available at Community Post offices or near the Back of the 1991 National zip code directory.  25 Colorado Springs Colo. Apr a United jetliner with 25 people on Board crashed in flames near the Colorado Springs municipal Airport sunday morning. There were apparently no survivors authorities and witnesses said. The Federal aviation administration in Washington said United flight 585 in route from Denver to Colorado Springs crashed at 9 55 . Four to five Miles South of the Airport. A a. A a a there were 20 passengers on Board the Boeing 737 and a Crew of five the Faa said. The plane crashed in a residential neighbourhood in a township called Widefield. At least one person on the ground was reported injured. Baltic duty Krem i i n Riga .s.r.ojp1 latvians and Estoni an a defying t h e Krem links will voted in Large numbers sunday in Independence plebiscites held to show their desire to secede from the soviet Union. Turnout was brisk in the two Baltic republics for the unsanctioned polls seeking popular affirmation of last years Independence declarations by new nationalist parliaments. Turnout in both republics reflected ethnic ties with participation significantly higher in Rural areas dominated by native latvians and estonians but Tower in cities with larger russian or other non indigenous populations Ira from Page 1 air base three Miles North of the kuwaiti Border Schwarzkopf emerged to Tell reporters the iraqis agreed to everything the allies had demanded. Schwarzkopf did not mention other demands spelled out by the allies and in , resolutions including reparations and iraqis rescinding of its annexation of Kuwait. He said both sides were prepared to meet again but that no Date was set. The iraqis left without making a  coalition forces took More than 1,400 iraqi prisoners on sunday from fail aka Island after bombarding it for several Days with Loudspeaker messages urging surrender a  military spokesman said. The prisoners included a brigadier general and 89 other officers said Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal. Neal cautioned reporters at the daily . Central come briefing in Riyadh that the Island located just off the coast of Kuwait in the persian Gulf was not necessarily in coalition hands v a we can to say with full Confidence that we have fail aka Island under full control he said. A we have not swept the  such a sweep might represent offensive operations which have been stopped in the theater he said. The allies captured Piore. Iraqi equipment Over the weekend. The 82nd airborne div found several aircraft in bunkers sunday including five Mirage of is six Mig-21s and eight  sunday night the total iraqi equipment captured or destroyed in the War included 3,300 tanks 2,100 armoured vehicles arid 2,200 artillery pieces Neal said. A i see it growing More in the next few Neal said. Tehran radio monitored in Cyprus said refugees fleeing Iraq for Iran on sunday reported a severe clashes in the cities of Basra Amasa Nas Siriya and kut., a a a  told Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency that peaceful demonstrations denouncing Saddam and a this wrong policies were allowed in Amara and Ali Gharbi in Eastern Iraq in recent Days. The iraqi Media focused on iraqis efforts to restore electrical Power a television and radio broadcasting Public transportation and to reopen schools closed since the Start of the  radio reported that Saddam led a meeting on such efforts late saturday night the first report of the iraqi leaders activities since the teas fire. Iraq s official Media did not mention the truce talks in its reports sunday. Iraq has advised the red Cross that it is ready for an immediate prisoner Exchange said Andreas Wigger the chief red Cross representative in Baghdad. But he said Iraq has refused to say How Many pos it has or to identify them by names. -1  a a a. The known pos include nine americans sixty six Allied soldiers arc missing. Including 45 americans. The United nations Tes Lulion approved saturday night would allow a resumption of the War if Iraq does not quickly comply with its terms. It passed 11-1 with Cuba voting against it and China Yemen and India abstaining. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on sunday ruled out. Western involvement in. Any postwar Security arrangement in the Gulf. Athe United states and other Western allies have said they were interested in helping keep peace in the Region. ,. Secretary of state James a Baker Iii interviewed sunday on no cd so meet the press a said that the United states seeks to maintain an a enhanced naval presence in the Gulf but wants Arab countries to dominate postwar Security arrangements. Contributing to Thia report staff writer Ron Jensen in Riyadh saudi Arabi from Page 1 / said a i Felt like i had a Uri to offer any Bradley unit arid 1 wanted to be on the front if the ground War  the filial blow came when err s hum Vee was converted into an ambulance. Quot that was it. 1 told my first sergeant that if the War started i would drive the a humvee to the nearest unit that had Bradley Park it and get myself a Job a Orr said. Quot he knew 1 was serious so he helped me get to a Bradley  Orr ended up commanding a Bradley in the 24th inf div s 2nd so 4th Cav the unit to which the 197th was attached. A i was so relieved i Felt needed again Quot Orr Saida few inhers into the ground Campaign however Orris Relief turned into frustration when the. Breakdown silenced the Bradley a weapons. The sergeant then began towing other broken vehicles. Quot you always wonder if you re prepared for something like this a he said. A you want to think that you Are but you done to know until you be tested. Thais what 1 wanted to Lind  Page 1 the Mission capability of the aircraft and de icing have Long since been resolved. A i done to know where he a getting that from a air Force maj Dick Cole said of the lawmakers charges. According to Cole the by has a Mission capability in the 70 percent Range and is improving. A the general accounting office Congress investigative  said several years ago that de icing on the plane is not a problem. Quot a a there Are Only two problems still of concern to the air Force Quot Cole said referring to the absence of a system for jamming enemy radar and the engine difficulty. Quot once we be got those tvo nailed we be got it knocked a he said. Regarding the panels finding of Zero Mission capability Cole Saifi a that Means nothing flies and nothing is Capa. Blk. That a not True. If the president directed us to War the planes would have been  air Force Secretary Donald Rice says the service was cancelling a contract for the sophisticated system to Jam enemy radar on the by. .1 Rice said changes instituted by Congress last year in the Pentagon budget make it difficult for the air Force to fulfil the contract valued at More than $300 million with Eaton ail of Deer Park . F a a. \ the air Force plans to decide by August whether to renew the contract. The committee found that the by s Mission capable rate for the Fleet a otherwise known As its ability to operate a is Zero because of the radar system s absence and other computer problems. The panel also discovered that no deicing system was designed for the aircraft and that an anti icing system under development was stalled by Congress when it stopped funding. The air Force hoped to use funds from other programs to resume development of the anti icing system. As for the engine problems Rice told Congress that the ervice believes several years and More than $10 million will a solve  of Blades breaking off the engines front fan. In the interim the air Force has come up with a stronger retaining ring for the engines front fan that will keep the fan in place if a single Blade is lost. The Short term solution enabled the a service on feb. 6 to lift the ban on flights which had been imposed  december. It Joseph Owen Middle East Bureau Kuwait t City a reports last summer that iraqi occupation troops were stealing Hospital incubators and leaving the infants to die apparently were false a kuwaiti medical official says. A Quot we have. No Clear evidence that that was True Quot said Jehad Al Gharab ally assistant manager of Kuwait s National medical service department. At the Lime kuwaiti off Isiais did not believe the Story when the world Media Quot reported it. He said. But they said nothing because it provided additional political leverage for Western arid Arab governments demanding that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait he said. Al Gharab ally said the iraqis commandeered medical equipment for their own use shortly alter their invasion aug. 2, but kept ii in. The hospitals. J uncover in the three weeks prior to the ground War iraqi troops began removing Hospital equipment a including incubators by then though Many kuwaitis had left the City and there was enough equipment to. Care for those who remained he said. Quot the Point is Kuwait is filled with medical equipment. They did t have enough time to take it All Quot Al Gharab ally said. A a v a. The health official also said the poor sanitation resulting from the disruption of Tjie water Supply and electrical generation has not led to cholera or other diseases. Some doctors however have attributed a higher than Norma rate of premature births to War related stress. And they have said smoke from Oil Field Wircs have prompted an increase in asthma cases and other breathing disorders